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Class Referenced Webpages

General

HHMI Biointeractive- Home of so many high quality lectures and resources about all sorts of current biology.
TED- We watch a lot of TED during the year

Biodiversity

The encyclopedia of life- endeavors to contain an individual page for every organism described by biology

Phylogeny

GenBank- The NIH database of all publicly available genetic data. Massive (and somewhat slow as a result). Home of BLAST.
UniProt- A cultivated database of protein sequence data.
Next Generation Biology Workbench- An online suite of phylogenetic analysis tools. Full-featured and research quality.
Phylogeny.fr- A more “one-click” approach to phylogenetic analysis. Paste the sequences and click a button. A tree will come out the other side.

Ecology

myfootprint.org- to calculate your ecological footprint

Interactive Simulations
University of Utah “Learn Genetics” Interactive

The University of Utah has a great website with tons of cool interactive things you can play around with.
For Cell Biology:

Cell Size and Scale

For Molecular Genetics:

For Physiology:

Mouse Party- Used during Physiology Unit

John Kyrk’s Interactives
John Kyrk makes some really awesome interactive Flash animations. We will reference them throughout the year.

For Biochemistry:

For Evolution:

History of the Universe

For Cell Biology:

For Cell Cycle:

For Molecular Genetics:

For Metabolism:

PhET Biology Simulations
Various Java applets that you can use to investigate various biological phenomena
AP Bio General Course Specific Webpages

Online Textbook Resources

Kimball’s Biology Pages- An online textbook used in a community college
The On-line Biology Book- Another online textbook.
The MIT OpenCourseware Biology Section- MIT Biology Courses…Free!

Other Teacher’s Websites

The Biology Space- Course Website of Ms. Lee Ferguson, arguable the best AP Biology teacher in Texas.
Bozeman Biology Youtube Channel- By Paul Andersen, the guy who makes the videos that I put at the end of your PDQ’s.
Explore Biology- The website of the inimitable Ms. Kim Foglia. Source of many of my materials.
Mr. Gallant’s Biology Stuff- Mr. Gallant runs a pretty cool little website.

Collegeboard Resources

The Collegeboard AP Biology Website- Is it possible that the College Board’s AP Biology Website just might help you, AP Biology student?

AP Exam Preparation Sites

Old AP Biology Essay Questions- Old AP Biology Essay Questions (I have to get your exam questions from somewhere…)
Bubbabrain AP Review- Seems like some useful review games. Have to select AP Biology from the list of “junior” or “senior” topics.

Biology Media Sources
Images and Animations

Wikimedia Commons- All of the media on wikipedia, searchable in one place.
NASA Image Library- Images from NASA (as cool as it sounds).